Structural violence : hidden brutality in the lives of women / Joshua M. Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Joshua M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Violence against--United States.

Women.

Women--Violence against--United States--Prevention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gold Medalist, 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women's Studies categoryStructural Violence seeks to redraw the conventional map of violence against women. In order to understand violence as a fundamentally heterogeneous phenomenon, it is essential to go beyond interpersonal partner violence and analyze the workings of institutional and structural violence. Self-help books, some shelters, the courts, federal and state legislation, empirical studies, therapeutic models, and even some mainstream feminist polemics presume that all women face the same kind of violence. This assumption masks violence that does not conform to the imagined norm, such as violence against women who are sex workers, lesbians, experiencing homelessness, and/or undocumented. Joshua M. Price's exploration of these issues is based on several years of research involving participant-observation in domestic violence courts and extensive interviews with activists, advocates, incarcerated women, and women who have faced various forms of violence. Both conceptually and methodologically, the book challenges narrow notions of violence against women and demonstrates implications for judicial intervention and other forms of public involvement.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Power and Control Wheel

Difficult Maneuvers

Speech at the Margins

Homophobia, Structural Violence, and Coalition Building

Spaces of Judgment and Judgments of Space

“Why Doesn’t She Just Leave?”

Tentative Conclusions and Small-Scale Solutions

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438443454

1438443455

OCLC:

817565684